i think i'd like to emigrate...

this evening we went to listen to a journalist/author who's been writing about the security megacomplex that's grown up since the events of 2001. by the end of the Q&A session, where the inevitable question of how to fix/change/do something was touched upon, my only thought was that government - perhaps even the country-  is too big to really be changed. and there's nothing any of us can do about it. it's one thing to argue that you should stay in your neighborhood or community and work for the good there rather than picking up and leaving when times get hard. there the scale is such that if you stay you have a good chance of seeing something come to fruition. but when you change that scale from a few hundred people to hundreds of millions of people, the chances of your work coming to something seem so small...